A brief history of olive oil in Columbia

Villa de Leyva, Leyva rhymes with Ava (as in Ava Gardner), is a whitewashed colonial village, and now a National Monument, located in the Valle de Saquencipá about 4 hours from Bogotá, Colombia. The village dates from the late 1500s and it sometimes feels in Villa de Leyva that you are present in a place that time has forgotten. Or put another way, it is often possible in Villa de Leyva to step back in time. And if you do step back in time here, you will find yourself present at the introduction by the Spaniards of olive vines to the New World.